1Ki 4:7-19, 1Ch 27:1-15 | TSK | STEP | officers.These are doubtless to be considered as general receivers; for, as Sir John Chardin observes, "the revenues of the princes of the East are paid in the fruits and productions of the earth: there are no other taxes on the peasants." each man.

1 Kings 4:7-19

officers.These are doubtless to be considered as general receivers; for, as Sir John Chardin observes, "the revenues of the princes of the East are paid in the fruits and productions of the earth: there are no other taxes on the peasants."

each man.

1Ch 27:1-15

The son of Hur. or, Ben-hur.

Jud 17:1; 19:1

The son of Dekar. or, Ben-dekar. Shaalbim.

Jos 19:42

Shaalabbin. Beth-shemesh.

1Sa 6:12,20

The son of Hesed. or, Ben-hesed. Sochoh.

Jos 15:35

Hepher.

Jos 12:17; 17:2

The son of Abinadab. or, Ben-abinadab. Dor.

Jos 12:23; 17:11; Jud 1:27

Taanach.

Megiddo.

Beth-shean.

Zartanah.

Zarthan.

Zaretan. Jezreel.

Abel-meholah.

19:16

The son of Geber. or, Ben-geber. Ramoth-gilead.

22:3; De 4:43; Jos 20:8; 21:38; 2Ki 9:1,14

the towns.

Nu 32:41; De 3:14

Argob.

De 3:4,8,13,14; Ps 22:12; 68:15

threescore great cities.These were the fortified cities; their gates and bars being covered with plates of brass.

Mahanaim. or, to Mahanaim.

Ge 32:2; 2Sa 2:8; 17:24,27

Naphtali.

the daughter.

Asher.

Issachar.

Shimei.

Benjamin.

the country of Sihon.

Nu 21:21-35; De 2:26-37; 3:1-17; Jos 13:9-12

1 Chronicles 27:1-15

1 The twelve captains for every several month.

16 The princes of the twelve tribes.

23 The numbering of the people is hindered.

25 David's several officers.

the chief fathers.The patriarchs, chief generals, or generals of brigade. This enumeration is widely different from that of the preceding. In that, we have the order and course of the priests and Levites, in their ecclesiastical ministrations: in this, we have the account of the order of the civil service, what related simply to the political state of the king and kingdom. Twenty-four persons, chosen out of David's worthies, each of whom had a second, were placed over 24,000 men, who all served a month at a time, in turn; and this was the whole of their service during the year, after which they attended to their own affairs. Thus the king had always on foot a regular force of 24,000, who served without expense to him or the state, and were not oppressed by the service, which took up only a twelfth part of their time; and by this plan he could, at any time, bring into the field 12 times 24,000 or 288,000 fighting men, independently of the 12,000 officers, which made in the whole an effective force of 300,000 soldiers; and all these men were prepared, disciplined, and ready at a call, without the smallest expense to the state or the king. These were, properly speaking, the militia of the Israelitish kingdom.

captains.

13:1; Ex 18:25; De 1:15; 1Sa 8:12; Mic 5:2

served.

28:1; 2Ch 17:12-19; 26:11-13

any matter.

1Ki 5:14

month.

1Ki 4:7,27

Jashobeam.

11:11; 2Sa 23:8

Adino the Eznite.

Perez.

Ge 38:29; Nu 26:20

Pharez. the chief.

Ge 49:8-10; Nu 7:12; 10:14

Dodai.

11:12; 2Sa 23:9

Dodo.

Benaiah.Or, "Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest:" it was Jehoiada, and not Benaiah, who was a priest.

18:17; 1Ki 4:4

chief priest. or, principal officer.

1Ki 4:5

mighty.

11:22-25; 2Sa 22:20-23; 23:20-23

Asahel.

11:26; 2Sa 2:18-23; 23:24

Shamhuth.If this person was the same as Shammoth the Hararite, or Shammah the Harodite, it is probable that he took the denomination Izrahite, from one of his progenitors of the name Izrah, and derived the other from the place of his residence.

11:27

Shammoth the Hararite.

26:29; 2Sa 23:25

Shammah the Harodite.

Ira.

11:28; 2Sa 23:26

Helez.

11:27

Pelonite.

2Sa 23:26

Paltite.

Sibbecai.